Find A Soprano On Google Maps And Whackim

HBO is planning to promote the new season of "Sopranos" by using Google Maps. Time Warner's cable network plans to form interactive maps of New Jersey to keep track of the characters and where events occur, as well as a way to help viewers remember old storylines.

Yahoo Answers With Improvements

If you've got questions, the users at Yahoo Answers don't have blank stares; they may have answered your question already, and the Yahoo Answers engineers have made it easier to find that answer with the wonders of Ajax programming.

Technoratis Blogger Tip: Aim For The Middle

Technorati's Dave Sifry has a word of advice for blogger upstarts: find your niche and aim for "The Magic Middle." Sifry says there's a middle ground, where topic specialization, a modest number of inbound links, and a little help from some new features can be enough to climb the ladder of blog success.

MSN AdCenter: Preview Today, Flat Tomorrow

If you are curious about how ads from the forthcoming adCenter service will look after it replaces Overture this summer, a testing site lets visitors glimpse the future according to adCenter. What it doesn't show: the prospect of a leveled-off online ad marketplace.

Feedster Rises From Dead, Kicks Technorati

After Microsoft's Robert Scoble instructed his blog readers to place the word "brrreeeport" on their own blogs to test the various blog engines, the blogosphere reacted quickly and Technorati was quick to toot its own horn as the winner. Feedster begs to differ and thinks Yahoo should kiss its...